Given the serious charges, anyone proclaiming that war criminasls be held to account should be feted not sacked.
This shows that Serbia has a way to go to meet European standards.
The pressure should continue!
Onésimo Alvarez-Moro
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Serbia's government, now in its final weeks in office, has purged a controversial senior police inspector as part of moves to reappoint loyalists from the former regime of Slobodan Milosevic in the police and judiciary.
Vladimir Bozovic, a human rights lawyer who has served as inspector-general of police for the past three years, lost his job last week. He told the FT yesterday that he was pushed out because he had pressed the Serbian government to capture and hand over Ratko Mladic, the fugitive Bosnian Serb army commander wanted for alleged genocide.
Mr Bozovic's replacement, Ljubinko Nikolic, is an alleged member of Mr Milosevic's inner circle. Critics of the outgoing government said he could help consolidate the grip of ex-regime loyalists on the police.
The European Commission looks eager to reopen talks with the next Serbian government but the entrenchment of anti-reform security officials would undermine claims about improved co-operation with the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
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